Code reviews often get skipped when schedules are tight. It is only later when there are problems, that code reviews are often part of a postmortem analysis of a project, or are even part of an external review. In this course, Shawn Wildermuth will share with you lessons he's learned from doing many of these reviews for companies.

We often spend more time than we'd like to writing repetitive, low-value, boilerplate code. If we want to spend more of our time actually writing more interesting code that adds business value, Fody can help. Fody is a modular, extensible, open source tool that comes with a whole host of pre-built add-ins to perform tasks such as automatically adding Equals, GetHashCode and Equality operators or implementing IDisposable for us. In this course, we'll learn how to use these pre-built add-ins and also create our own custom Fody add-ins.

Have you noticed that the majority of .NET books seem intent on hiding you from real-world code? You can buy a 1,500-page draft excluder, study it exclusively for a month, and still be none the wiser as to how you can put together even the most basic of programs. This book isn’t like that. Whether you’re a hardened pro or new to .NET, this book is the one you’ll want to keep on your desk 24/7.Within these pages, you’ll learn: how to create exciting new XP-style interfaces; how to code ultra-thin Windows applications that automatically update via the Web; dozens of hush-hush ASP.NET secrets; how to push your DataGrid to the max in Windows applications and on the Web; and how to add powerful Google, Amazon, and TerraServer searches to your applications.

Customers are not patient and never in history has your website or application's performance mattered as much as today. According to Amazon, every 100 millisecond increase in load time decreased sales by 1%. In 2013 that could mean as much as 740 million dollars! Site and application speed is mentally associated with reliability, credibility, security, and stability. Developers are often unaware of how to optimize performance properly. Even worse, performance becomes a priority only when it is unacceptable or, in the best case, annoying. Learn how to profile, identify hotspot bottlenecks, and optimize .NET code to create fast and efficient applications with JetBrains dotTrace.

Managed code is great, but sometimes .NET code must call native code, such as Windows API DLLs or COM components. The course explores most options for interop, from P/Invoke, to COM and even C++/CLI. Best practices are spread throughout the course. A deeper understanding of COM mechanisms provides a better experience and the ability to solve issues should they arise. This course should be helpful for any .NET developer that must introp with native code (and vice versa).